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Intelligence and counter-intelligence

In this unit, students will learn to identify the key agencies in Australia's national security community. This unit will enable students to articulate the relationship between public and private sector law enforcement and intelligence organisations in protecting the state from domestic and foreign threats.

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New Security Challenges

This unit will familiarise you with the concepts of securitisation, human security and non-traditional security threats and challenges. This unit is for students seeking to examine terrorism, insurgencies, organized crime, the arms trade, poverty and development, resource war, and the challenges for Australia.

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Counter-terrorism policies and practices

This unit will provide you with a brief, yet detailed and insightful account of the most important terrorism and counterterrorism-related aspects in a post-9/11 era. Over five topics, this unit will cover the conceptual complexity surrounding the definition of terrorism and the understanding of counterterrorism policy and practice; explores why terrorism is so hard to define, what counterterrorism entails, and how effective counterterrorism policy and practice is deployed. The case studies in this unit include a close examination of Australia's counterterrorism policy, as well as a look at the role of the ADF in counterterrorism practice, since the 9/11 attacks. Finally, the unit will look at some of the most recent counterterrorism developments in South East Asia, including how the Islamic terrorism threat has grown in the region over the last two decades.

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Terrorism and political violence in South Asia

This unit aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature of political and security challenges confronting the South Asian region and how these challenges impact upon global security; the relationship between politics, security, and terrorism in South Asia; the appropriate counter-terrorism measures that have been taken by affected states; and the out-of-the-box solutions to security problems confronting South Asia. While a regional perspective will be adopted, the unit will place particular emphasis on the Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan. This unit is for students seeking to extend their study into the political and security challenges confronting the South Asian region.

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Military Modernisation and Future Force Enhancement

This unit will explore the challenges and opportunities in capability requirements, force modernisation including training and equipment acquisition and defence industry in the future of global security. This unit will enable students to articulate the relationship between capability development to respond to domestic impacts such as disaster relief; and foreign threats. To describe capability needs in terms of organisational growth, and equipment modernisation and enhancement in protecting the state from domestic impacts and foreign threats.

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Security Policy Analysis: Current and Emerging Issues

This unit examines current issues in national and international security. It allows students to investigate the most prominent changes, dynamics and events that are occurring (sometimes in real-time) as the unit is being delivered. This unit is fluid with the specific topics varying from year to year to reflect the contemporary world; however topics may range from great power strategic competition through to terrorist attacks, civil wars, infectious disease outbreaks and nuclear proliferation. This unit is for students seeking to extend their study into the dynamic political and security challenges in national and international security.

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Ethical practice in security studies

This unit will canvas the major ethical, moral and legal paradigms of thought within security studies. This unit is for students seeking to evaluate the ethics of the recourse to war, humanitarian intervention, wartime conduct, interrogation and torture, weapons, intelligence and surveillance.

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International politics

This unit will discuss political issues, institutions, ideas, policies that dominate local, national and international agendas. Students will complete this unit with understanding of the variety of themes and debates influencing politics including democracy, identity, gender, the media, terrorism, policy-making, international conflict and cooperation, and the many faces of power including how it is exercised and contested.

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Different perspectives in leadership

This unit will discuss political issues, institutions, ideas, policies that dominate local, national and international agendas. Students will complete this unit with understanding of the variety of themes and debates influencing politics including democracy, identity, gender, the media, terrorism, policy-making, international conflict and cooperation, and the many faces of power including how it is exercised and contested.

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History of the Post-modern world

This unit will examine post-modern history from the late 20th Century onwards. This unit is for students seeking to extend their study into how post-modernity manifests in culture and the historical context of these cultural expressions in the 21st Century.

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